Big Brother All-Stars: "Iraqi Peach Plucked"Review

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America's favorite goes down and a new HoH is crowned controversially.

By Staci Krause

Big Brother All-Stars was a mixed bag on Thursday night. On the one hand, some pretty cool things happened. On the other, Kaysar was evicted and the HoH competition had some snafus. Ok, ok, Kaysar's eviction being a bad thing is clear bias. His eviction ups the entertainment value of the show, since season six is not quite as dominant, so we'll pretend like that's a good thing.

Kaysar lobbied hard for the votes, but in the end, the house voted against him, with only Howie and Janelle casting votes in his favor. After he left the house, Julie informed Kaysar about James' betrayal and his alliance with Mike, Will and Danielle, and Kaysar couldn't have looked more shocked. His honest style of gameplay did not do well in a house full of lying, deceitful, backstabbing players, and that's a shame for one of America's all-time favorite BB players. Perhaps we'll see him on a reality show more suitable to his personality, like The Amazing Race. That would be wicked. Go Kaysar!

The personal story this week came from Will and Mike's mothers. To be honest, Mike is somewhat annoying, in that 'you are a 40 year old man, grow up already' sort of way. However, hearing from his mother gave him some dimension. In our interview with Diane last week, we learned he's a funny and nice guy, and from his mother, we saw the chubby kid turned cool kid side of him - and all of that certainly gives him new perspective. Perhaps Mike isn't the obnoxious guy he's portrayed on the show, with the power of editing and all. Mike's mother also threw an interesting bit out there, with the assertion that Mike and Erika are in a secret alliance. That could certainly be interesting, if true.

It was the end of the line for Kaysar on Big Brother: All Stars

The Head of Household competition began the night before, with the ghosts of Big Brother past coming back to haunt the houseguests. Appearances came from Holly of season 5, Eric of season 6, and Alison of season 4, among others. As the competitors gathered around for a s¿ance, each 'ghost' showed them what item they took, some adding biting comments. Particularly hilarious was Alison's reference to Erika and Janelle's enhancements. In the HoH competition, they were quizzed on what they saw and heard at the s¿ance with true or false questions. If everyone answered it right, the slowest person was eliminated. If someone answered it wrong, they were eliminated. Straightforward, right? Unfortunately, the buzzers were malfunctioning. On a question where Janelle answered wrong, Mike's answer didn't even show up, but he wasn't called out on it. Julie Chen just moved on. Then, bad stuff happened. Howie buzzed in and was the fastest to attempt to answer, but his answer didn't take - and as a result -- he was eliminated as the slowest. In the end, Erika won the competition. I foresee a remedy, though, since there were malfunctions that did affect the outcome of the competition. If not, this is going to spell bad news for the show.

The big twist teased to us last week was revealed. The Coup d'Etat will be a competition in which players, if they win it, will be able to overturn a Head of Household's nominations immediately before the live vote and replace them with their own. Only the person to win this power will know what it can be used for. The winner will be revealed next Thursday. In order to win it, players will be given clues throughout the week to a commonly used phrase and the first one to give the right phrase in the diary room will win it. They can only attempt to answer once. Their first clue? A sheep! It will be interesting to see how that ties into a phrase. We'll find out more about this, see if they fix the HoH competition problem, and find out who is nominated for eviction on Sunday.